Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.